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World Development Report 2013

World Development Report 2013

Publisher: World Bank Publications

English; Paperback; 420 pages; 8x10.5

Published October 15, 2012 by World Bank

ISBN: 978-0-8213-9575-2; SKU: 19575

Jobs drive development

Jobs are instrumental to achieving economic and social development. Beyond their critical importance for individual well-being, they lie at the heart of many broader societal objectives, such as poverty reduction, economy-wide productivity growth, and social cohesion. The development payoffs from jobs include acquiring skills, empowering women, and stabilizing post-conflict societies. Jobs that contribute to these broader goals are valuable not only for those who hold them but for society as a whole: they are good jobs for development. World Development Report 2013 takes the centrality of jobs in the development process as its starting point and challenges and reframes how we think about work. World Development Report 2013 is now available for sale in paperback.

WDR 2013 offers answers to such questions as:

Should countries build their development strategies around growth or should they rather focus on jobs?

Can entrepreneurship be fostered, especially among the many microenterprises in developing countries, or are entrepreneurs born?

While jobs can contribute to social cohesion, is there anything governments can do about it, apart from trying to support job creation?

Are greater investments in education and training a prerequisite for employability, or can skills be built through jobs?

Should efforts to improve the investment climate target the areas, activities, or firms with greater potential for job creation?

What is the risk that policies to foster job creation in one country will come at the expense of jobs in other countries?

When confronted with large shocks and major restructuring, is it advisable to protect jobs and not just people?

How can the reallocation of workers be accelerated from areas and activities with low productivity to those with greater potential?

World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

World Development Report
English; Paperback; 426 pages; 8x10.5
Published September 28, 2011 by World Bank
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8810-5; SKU: 18810

The lives of women around the world have improved dramatically, at a pace and scope difficult to imagine even 25 years ago. Women have made unprecedented gains in rights, education, health, and access to jobs and livelihoods. More countries than ever guarantee equal rights in property, marriage, and other domains. Gendergaps in primary schooling have closed in many countries, while in a third of all countries girls now outnumber boys in secondary school. And more young women than men attend universities in 60 countries. Women are using their education to participate more in the labor force: they now make up for 40 percent of the global labor force and 43 percent of its farmers. Moreover, women now live longer than men in every region of the world.

Despite the progress, gaps remain in many areas. Women are more likely to die—relative to males—in many low- and middle-income countries than their counterparts in rich countries,especially in childhood and during their reproductive years. Primary and secondary school enrollments for girls remain much lower than for boys in many Sub-Saharan African countries and some parts of South Asia, as well as among disadvantaged populations. Women are more likely than men to work as unpaid family laborers or in the informal sector, to farm smaller plots and grow less profitable crops, operate in smaller firms and less profi table sectors, and generally earn less. Women—especially poor women—have less say over decisions and less control over household resources. And in most countries, fewer women participate in formal politics than men and are underrepresented in the upper echelons.

The World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development argues that closing these persistent gender gaps matters. It matters because gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. But it is also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for the next generation, and make institutions more representative. Building on a growing body of knowledge on the economics of gender equality and development, the Report identifies the areas where gender gaps are most significant—both intrinsically and in terms of their potential development payoff—and where growth alone cannot solve the issues. It then sets forth four priorities for public action:

Reducing excess female mortality and closing education gaps where they remain
Improving access to economic opportunities for women
Increasing women’s voice and agency in the household and in society
Limiting the reproduction of gender inequality across generations.

World Development Report 2011. Conflict, Security and Development

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ISBN: 978-0-8213-8439-8

The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a challenge to economic development. It will analyze the nature, causes and development consequences of modern violence and highlight lessons learned from efforts to prevent or recover from violence. Between two thirds and three quarters of the children without access to school, infants dying and mothers dying in childbirth in the developing world live in countries at risk or, affected by or recently recovering from violence. There are strong links between local conflicts, national conflict, organized crime and trafficking and gang activity, and several societies that have successfully addressed one form of violence have later seen other forms threaten their development progress. The key challenge is to build national institutional capacities, taking account of the balance between political realities and progress on social justice, and the need for carefully sequenced and paced reforms. Successful efforts to prevent violence have in general combined political, security and developmental efforts in support of objectives of citizen security, economic hope and inclusive and responsive governance. The ultimate goal of the WDR is to promote new ways of preventing or addressing violent conflict. The WDR will not attempt to come up with a universal set of prescriptions. By drawing on insight and experiences from a host of past and present situations, it will identify promising national and regional initiatives as well as directions for change in international responses, and discuss how lessons can be applied in situations of vulnerability to violent conflict.

World Development Report 2010. Development and Climate Change

ISBN: 9780821379875

Pub. date: 06 Nov 2009

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Climate change is one of many challenges facing developing countries - but unless it is tackled soon, it will reverse development gains. Climate change threatens all countries, especially developing ones. Understanding what climate changemeans for development policy is the central aim of the report.

World Development Indicators 2010

Published 22.04.2010

ISBN: 978-0-8213-8232-5

SKU: 18232

Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? 'World Development Indicators' is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for more than 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 90 tables.

Atlas of Global Development, Third Edition: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges

Published 15.02.2011 by World Bank

ISBN: 978-0-8213-8583-8

SKU: 18583

This is an excellent, up-to-date source book which will be invaluable for students of, and staff teaching, higher levels of geography .... a clear, concise, easily-accessible and well-illustrated volume. - Geographical Association, United Kingdom

World Development Indicators 2009. CD-ROM. Single User

Format: CD-ROM

Publication date: 15 Aug 2009

Publisher: World Bank Publications

ISBN: 9780821378311

Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? "World Development Indicators" is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 900 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. It provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The CD-ROM editions contain 46 years of time series data for more than 200 countries from 1960-2007, single-year observations, and spreadsheets on many topics. It contains more than 1,000 country tables and the text from the "World Development Indicators 2009" print edition. The Windows based format permits users to search for and retrieve data in spreadsheet form, create maps and charts, and fully download them into other popular software programs for study or presentation purposes. The CD-ROM system requires Windows 98 or NT 4.0 or later, 20 MB of available hard disk space, 32 MB of RAM, and 2 MB of video memory. 64 K color video display recommended. Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 or higher and sound card optional.

Published annually since 1978, the World Development Report has long been an influential publication and an essential reference on the world economy and the state of economic and social development. Each year's report focuses on a specific topic in development such as labor, infrastructure, the role of the state, transitional economies, health, the environment, agriculture, or poverty. The Complete World Development Report, 1978-2009 brings together for the first time the full texts of all 31 yearly reports in an easy-to-use, fully searchable digital archive. This DVD allows users to explore, search, and view every page of every report as it originally appeared.